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Former Donald Trump aide Hope Hicks wept in court on Friday as she testified in the criminal case against someone she still deeply respects, and some legal experts have suggested what those tears really mean.

During a debate in the New Hampshire House of Representatives this week, Republican state Rep. Jess Edwards voiced his opposition to a bill setting the minimum age of marriage to 18 — because it would induce "ripe and fertile" 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds to have more abortions instead of settling down and having a family.

MANHATTAN CRIMINAL COURT — Donald Trump's expected Manhattan criminal trial defense that his lawyer, Michael Cohen, acted on his own when he paid hush money to keep an affair quiet was pierced by an aide's testimony Friday.

Golden sneakers.

Nonfungible tokens.

Jingoistic Bibles.

Much ado has been made about the baubles and bibelot a cash-strapped Donald Trump keeps peddling to MAGA-heads.

But one can wear a Trump shoe, auction a Trumpy digital asset and ponder Matthew 19:24 and 1 Timothy 6:10 while reading the Lee Greenwood version of the Good Book.

The downside for Trump? All cost money to produce.

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A national TV program that presents Donald Trump as God's anointed leader has found a loyal following among conservative Christians who see its message as divinely inspired.

Former President Donald Trump's attorney needs to be brought to heel by Judge Juan Merchan before Michael Cohen takes the stand, warned former Manhattan-based federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg in an MSNBC article Friday.

Fearful of a potential consumer backlash and guilt by association, corporations are heeding the advice of corporate consultants and keeping their distance from the Republican Party convention in Milwaukee where Donald Trump will likely be coronated as the 2024 presidential nominee.

MANHATTAN CRIMINAL COURT — Hope Hicks' testimony came to a dramatic halt Friday afternoon after former President Donald Trump's onetime spokeswoman burst into tears on the witness stand.

Former President Donald Trump's former press secretary Hope Hicks testified Friday she asked fixer Michael Cohen to ask God for help with a breaking story about a Playboy model who said she'd had sex with the then-presidential candidate while his wife was pregnant.

Donald Trump's former press secretary and top adviser Hope Hicks was likely the final witness on Friday as the 11th day of the Manhattan criminal trial continues.

President Joe Biden will award the top US civilian honor Friday to a host of Democratic allies some six months before elections, including former House speaker Nancy Pelosi, secretary of state John Kerry and vice president Al Gore.

A handful of MAGA supporters who appeared outside former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial Friday were chanted down by a group of protesters chanting "Trump is not above the law."

Missouri currently has one of the strictest abortion bans in the United States, but a coalition behind a potential ballot measure is hoping to change that—and on Friday, it made major progress toward expanding reproductive freedom in the state.

During the lunch break that interrupted testimony by former White House aide Hope Hicks, Donald Trump launched into a full-throated tirade aimed at Judge Juan Merchan — and declared the Manhattan hush money trial is "an insult to American justice!"

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Friday fumed at the negative press she's been receiving from Fox News.

Donald Trump might be risking jail for contempt of court in an effort to delay his hush money trial.

Former Donald Trump White House aide Hope Hicks' recollection about the reaction of Donald Trump and his inner circle after learning about the release of the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape could play a key part in the Manhattan hush money jury's deliberations.

Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) on Friday drew instant criticism after he approvingly promoted a video showing white students at the University of Mississippi taunting a Black demonstrator — with at least one student making monkey noises at her.

Amid more damning revelations from her soon-to-be released book, embattled South Dakota Republican Governor Kristi Noem will head to Mar-a-Lago this weekend as ex-president Donald Trump auditions potential vice presidential picks in front of high-dollar donors. Noem was also slated to attend a Republican fundraiser in Colorado this weekend but it was canceled over alleged safety concerns after news broke she had bragged about shooting her 14-month old dog.

MANHATTAN CRIMINAL COURT — Former Donald Trump campaign press secretary Hope Hicks took the stand Friday to answer questions about what she heard during the final month of the 2016 campaign.

Any concerns Ivanka Trump might have about her father's 34-count felony trial taking place in a Manhattan courtroom were not apparent as she strutted and posed on the red carpet in Miami as part of this weekend's Grand Prix festivities.

MANHATTAN CRIMINAL COURT — Onlookers of Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial Friday broke into laughter when the former president's onetime press secretary Hope Hicks described the praise he heaped on the tabloid "National Enquirer."

A former government employee has been charged with falsely accusing seven colleagues of participating in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

MANHATTAN CRIMINAL COURT — Donald Trump gave a big yawn in the courtroom Friday as his lawyers huddled to discuss a recent defeat handed to them by New York Justice Juan Merchan.

Since Gov. Kristi Noem’s disclosure of her farmyard killing spree, everybody’s been focused on Cricket.